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March 11, 2019

Judge Jails Chelsea Manning For Refusing to Testify About Wikileaks
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U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent back to jail after
refusing to answer questions before a grand jury Friday. Manning had
been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Virginia's Eastern District to
appear for questioning about her 2010 release to Wiki Leaks of hundreds
of thousands of State Department and Pentagon documents about the U.S.
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning was imprisoned from 2010 to 2017
for the leak. Manning's lawyer says they will appeal for her release.
This is whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in
1971, speaking to Democracy Now! Sunday.

Daniel Ellsberg: "I think it's very important that journalists realize
and publishers realize that their own ability to operate under the First
Amendment and to do their function in a free society is being
challenged, attacked here, specifically through Chelsea Manning, as it
has been for many years. It's still going on. And she's never done
anything more admirable than her current refusal to take part in that
assault on the free press."

We'll hear more from Daniel Ellsberg and speak to journalist Glenn
Greenwald about Chelsea Manning after headlines.


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